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> The Chinese firm is a member of an American organization called the OpenPower Foundation, which was founded by Google and IBM executives with the aim of tryin
by jsty 7y ago
> The Chinese firm is a member of an American organization called the OpenPower Foundation, which was founded by Google and IBM executives with the aim of trying to “drive innovation.”
So the link is all three happen to be members of an open consortium? That has to be one of the most tenuous 'links' imaginable, on par with "have employees who attended the same conference once".
- yorwba 7y agoOpenPower is such a nice ominous name that the writer conveniently avoided explaining that it refers to the instruction set architecture descended from PowerPC (although that means they missed a chance to also "link" them to Apple). I doubt that the particular instruction set architecture used by those chips has a large influence on their use for surveillance applications. In a few years, we'll probably get to read similar articles about RISC-V, complete with "risky" puns.